Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini was an Italian composer. He was born in 1760 at Florence and died in 1842. His first opera, Quinto Fabio, was produced in Alessandria in 1780, and in Rome (in an altered form) in 1783, with such success as to spread his fame over Italy. After visiting London he finally settled in Paris, where he became director of the L'ecole Royale in 1822. Among his compositions are Iphigenia in Aulide; Lodoiska, Faniska, Les Deux Journees, etc. In his later years he confined himself almost exclusively to the composition of sacred music, and gained a lasting fame by his Coronation Mass, and more especially his gorgeous Requiem. Research Maria Cherubini
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